A basic constituent of French intonation is the Accentual Phrase (AP), which includes two distinct tonal events: a final LH* accentual rise and an initial LHi rise. A previous study had shown a difference between the rising movements according to the the position of the AP within the intonational phrase (IP): prenuclear (P, IP-initial) versus nuclear (N, IPfinal). The present paper explains thi...

This paper investigates the degree to which an onset consonant of an accentual phrase affects the f0 of the following syllables within the phrase in Seoul Korean. Korean tense or aspirated onset consonants raise f0 values of the following adjacent vowel, and when they are positioned on the first syllable onset of an accentual phrase, they continuously raise f0 values of the following non-adjace...

The aim of this research is to examine the role of the acoustic correlates of lexical stress in the integration of accentual information in French speakers. A shape/pseudoword matching task is used, as it implies not only a low-level acoustic processing, but also a lexical processing. Results show, on the one hand, an influence of the accentual pattern in the perception of stress; on the other,...

The article considers the problem of development metrical forms cycle folklore spiritual verses about Tsarevich Joasaph. Spiritual related to literary tradition are used as supplementary material. aim research is trace evolution metrics Joasaph in context history Russian versification. tasks formation a database texts, differentiation texts into thematic groups, selection method work, and analy...

Shape characteristics of rising-falling accentual F0 peaks of Stockholm Swedish Accent I words in narrow focus are studied in a corpus of 287 read sentences. The corpus includes statements and three types of polar questions. Results reveal a clear effect of sentence mode on the shape of the accentual rises: Statements are predominantly characterized by convex rises, questions by concave rises.

I will present an analysis of the intonation of the Banyumas dialect of Javanese (an Austronesian language spoken in Indonesia), based on the autosegmental-metrical framework. As Javanese is a language without lexical stress, there are no pitch accents. Boundary tones are associated with the Accentual Phrase (AP). A non-final AP ends in a H% tone, while a nuclear AP ends in either a HL% or a LH...

It has been claimed that the declarative sentence type in Seoul Korean mostly has a falling terminal pitch/F0 contour. Further, it has been claimed that imperative and propositive sentence types also have a falling terminal pitch/F0 contour, thus when declarative has the same morphosyntactic structure with imperative and propositive sentence types, the three sentence types can be distinguished ...